let me reintroduce myself

Just a little about me and my history to get any new subscribers caught up and familiar with me both as a writer and a person. I started taking writing seriously from a hobby to a side hustle about 15 years ago I started off as a freelancer with little success but did have one published article with the now defunct complex magazine. I was a college dropout who went for journalism and media arts after finding out I was having my first child so I never thought the journalism career path would be sustainable. I use to also dabble in music production, ghost writing and used to release rap music even though the quality was subpar lmfao it was my hobby making beats that finally gave me a in back into my journalism hobby launching the blog eastcoastunderground central on blogger after falling in love with the underground hip-hop scene in the tri state area. I used to always check out the independent rap charts on myspace since my production company Ill behavior production's always ranked in the top 5 unsigned artist in new Jersey and I always had a knack for networking always looking for new artists to produce for. I started as a hobby reviewing my favorite tracks and showcasing my favorite artist on blogger promoting myself though social media and starting gaining 2 very distinct following one I sadly didn't know about during the blogs peak. One was my local hip-hop scene. I'm from a small city in NJ called Phillipsburg which boarders Easton PA and is part of the greater Lehigh valley demographic area. r the Lehigh valley hip-hop scene started embracing me to the point my blog ended up becoming 80 percent a Lehigh valley hip-hop blog and I became a local celebrity of sorts. I was nominated for over 15 Lehigh valley music awards in 3 year's for music journalist, website, music supporter multiple times and once for local hip-hop album of the year for a mixtape I hosted featuring the best music I reviewed. The other following which I wish I knew about sooner was my blog had a huge European following failing to realize at the time Europe is the home to the biggest most loyal underground hip-hop fans. I know this intro is all over the place my thoughts scattered because of personal reasons which are also responsible for me relaunching my blog but everything connected lol. Any I didn't discover how big my blog had gotten due to overseas viewership until I had a expose on a local artist go viral locally and checked my blog stats for the first time only then realizing I was averaging around 10k a week racking over a million views throughout the blogs life that still gets a average of 1000 hits a month despite not posting in over five years. All thanks to the European hip-hop fans I truly had success as a writer but ended up dropping the blog after a few disputes with artists I covered that leaked into my personal life realizing as a fan of music it hurts your perception of good music knowing too much about certain musicians on a personal level so I backed away. So this relaunch I'm going back to my original vision of covering the tri state hip-hop scene and various other independent movements and hip-hop opinion pieces instead of taking a hands on approach planting myself as part of one particular scene. This substacks will be more than that as I will also be using it to launch and promote my debut novel free Janet fullilling a goal of mine or publishing a novel even if it's though digital outlets and posting unfinished and dropped projects I've saved over the years so I can get people familiar with my writing style and build anticipation for my novels drop so I'm hoping to regain a support and network on this soft relaunch while also networking and collabing with various substack and reddit communities.l